If your cybersecurity team tells you that the software "escaped" during testing, it's time to fire your cybersecurity team.
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Thomas Sturm
@tsturm@famichiki.jp
Programmer, photographer and writer. Now go outside and look at the sky.
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Just gave up a domain from an old project that I kept around for 20 years without ever really doing much with it.
I *know* that I will never do anything with it ever again. But I still hesitated to turn off Auto-Renew.
Letting go of old unused domains is like burying an old dream.
Throwing Shade.
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(2/2) There was so much to discover - there are also walls with old brochures for 1980s-2000s devices. Japanese magazines from the era, and more hardware all over the place.
Grand Front Osaka
Google shutting down their cancer research so they can focus on making their other services worse is quite the strategic move.
The Jewelry - an apparently now closed/abandoned museum and event space in Osaka’s harbor.
At the current pricing and expected rate increases, the only jobs AI can reliably replace while being cost effective will be C-level executives.
"Our AI hacked another company" is like saying "My gun shot another person".
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@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org 😂 OK, I've been there, done that. Luckily no stairs nearby.
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@vampiress@eigenmagic.net This post is excellent - you put into words exactly how it felt when I originally experimented with an LLM - there are so many small choices that lie below conscious thought that make up my personality.
Even if the LLM follows my instructions to the word, I still gave up control on many micro-decisions and the end result is... average.
Osaka Sky
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online It’s probably another peanut-shaped thing… the solar system’s planets must have come in a giant box and we now find those packing peanuts all over the place. 😅
Oh wow - I missed this, but a week ago the BlenderNation site was using a still of my Tropical Sunset Loop as header image for the site.
You can see it here in the header gallery: https://www.blendernation.com/headers/tropical-sunset-loop/
Thanks @BartV@mastodon.social
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca These monthly reviews of floods and fires seem to get longer and longer.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io Yep 100% this.
Either they are incompetent or criminal or - at best - liars.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Have you seen this post: https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
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@nosword@localization.cafe Yes, it’s an amazing place to revisit some old memories.
Next time I’ll drag the teenager in there for some hands-on history lessons! 😁
Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The White House will soon announce a peace treaty with the algae. The US will formally cede the reflecting pool to the algae in return for oil drilling rights.
Just saw a TV interview with a local company here in Osaka that does wall murals as art projects and also for promotional purposes. Their website lists hundreds of cool murals in the Osaka area: https://www.wallshare-inc.com/works/allworks
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to It wasn't a hot take, it was a shit post.
Also, you misspelled "apologize".
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Whenever I hear that some idiot was burning through thousands of dollars with AI instead of just doing their fucking job themselves and managers encouraged this situation for months without a shred of oversight, it makes me despair.
What a waste.
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@irene@discuss.systems @dan@discuss.systems It’s always hilarious when a cat briefly forgets that they actually have a tail. 😂
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org It's also good to come out of high school with an understanding that there will be unknown unknowns - life is full of surprises and being able to adjust to these as they reveal themselves and to then learn what to do is a life skill.
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@Simplicator@federate.social There were a couple of Palm OS devices that I was unfamiliar with, but don't remember what they were. Overall, the collection is naturally very Japan-specific. Some devices and device groups that might have been popular in the West are underrepresented.
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@dan@discuss.systems Yes, highly recommended. It's a small space, takes about an hour or so to poke around and play with the devices.
Is that standardized testing museum still in a temple off Chang An avenue? I vaguely remember a place with many large stone tablets that recorded the students that passed over the centuries.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org This El Nino will certainly test some of those tipping points - and even if everything returns to "normal" in about a year, it's going to a rough 12 months.
The near-complete silence by so many large news outlets instead of reasonable attempts of education is incredibly unhelpful.
Most people are just not aware of how bad it already is.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer @healyn@normal.style This blog post is excellent. Perfectly describes my feelings and experiences with LLMs.
Japan Times telling it like they see it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/13/world/risk-of-iran-war-restart/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
The Republicans want $220 million for "White House hardening".
We should have never built it out of tofu. Big mistake.
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@dev@discuss.systems Considering what people did to Jesus at the end, I'd be careful comparing myself to him.
Maybe better stay with the goose stories.
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @cabel@social.panic.com They all had problems... the same thing on the Spectrum would have been 50 lines of DATA statements with a poke loop and a call into machine code. 😅
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@petergleick@fediscience.org I'll suggest to preload the vertical elements with explosive charges to simplify the preparations for the inaugural celebration of the next President.
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@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net OMG so much "agentic" bullshit. Like, how exactly will the remaining team review any of the code their fantastic new process produces?
Also, great strategy: Faster, Better Quality, Cheaper. Yeah, that's pure genius.
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@daniel@famichiki.jp Here it's been a strafing run by some giant clouds that then focused on Takarazuka and thereabouts. Lots of rumbling and a little rain here.
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@mathew@universeodon.com @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net That will speed them up the same way as jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is a much more effective way to reach the ground.
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@mwichary@mastodon.online A masterclass on UI design, from the keyboard up. Excellent work. The many hands-on (ha!) examples are great.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I saw regular steam freight service in China as late as 1991. I think it was mostly phased out by 1995.
I have vivid memories of the noise of steam freight trains thundering through the night while on sleeper trains in China in that time period.
But thanks for making me feel super-old this morning. 😂
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Do we know how close the flyby was? I don’t know if there would be any instrument on board to provide actual measurements at these speeds.
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@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org This is excellent news. I had no idea the collection was up and immediately sent a link to a family member who is the EXACT target audience for thousands of manuals of vintage electronic equipment. He'll be blown away by this. 😊